An update to my my OpenID Shitlist, Hitlist and Wishlist

Back in December, I posted my OpenID Shitlist, Hitlist and Wishlist. I listed 7 companies on my shitlist, 14 on hitlist and 12 on my wishlist. Given that it’s been all of two months but we’ve made some solid progress, I thought I’d go ahead and give a quick update on recent developments.

First, the biggest news is probably that Yahoo has come online as an OpenID 2.0 identity provider. This is old news for anyone who’s been watching the space, but given that I called them out on my wishlist (and that their coming online tripled the number of OpenIDs) they get serious props, especially since Flickr profile URLs can now be used as identity URLs. MyBlogLog (called out on my shitlist) gets a pass here since they’re owned by Yahoo, but I’d still like to see them specifically support OpenID consumption

I’d really like to take Satisfaction off my list, since they’ve released their API with support for OAuth, but they’ve still not added support for OpenID, so they’re not out of the woods just yet… even though their implementation of OAuth makes me considerably happy.

So, that’s about it for now. I hear rumblings from Digg that they want to support OpenID, but I’ve got no hard dates from them yet, which is fine. There’re plenty more folks who still need to adopt OpenID, and given the support the foundation has recently received from big guys like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Verisign and IBM, my job advocating for this stuff is only getting easier.

FTR, Chris, the MyBlogLog team pressed *very* hard to consume OpenIDs in March of 2007 because a) we were big believers and b) it was useful to our business development efforts.

At the time, OpenID was highly contentious within the company and a manager up the line of command told me directly that he “didn’t care if it meant the end of every deal MyBlogog had,” we were not supporting OpenID.

As can be seen in recent months, that stance has begun to change and I hope that someday I’ll be able to log into MyBlogLog with an OpenID.

As a Yahoo service using YahooIDs, though, that is not a decision the team can make. It’s a universal yes or a universal no. Thus, “the pass” is appreciated 😉